People
- Jackie Robinson (1919–1972), American Major League Baseball player
- James Robertson (judge) (born 1938), American District Court Judge
- Jeremy Roenick (born 1970), professional ice hockey player
- Jim Rome (born 1964), controversial radio host
- Jim Ross (born 1952), professional wrestling commentator
- Johnny Cash (1932–2003), American singer born born John R Cash
- Johnny Rebel (singer) (born 1938), Southern country singer
- Jonas Renkse (born 1975), vocalist of Katatonia
- Jordan Rudess (born 1956), keyboardist of Dream Theater
- JR (artist), anonymous French artist working in international slums
- J. R. Redmond (born 1977), former NFL player for the New England Patriots
- J. R. Richard (born 1950), former baseball player for the Houston Astros
- J. R. Rotem (born 1975), hip-hop and pop music producer
- J.R. (singer) (born 1979), CMR singer and half of production duo So Hot Productions
- Jr. (singer) (born 1994), South Korean singer
- Junius Richard Jayewardene (1906–1996), first Executive President of Sri Lanka
- N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (born 1983), Indian Telugu film actor also known as Jr. NTR
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only “instinct” I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as “the sin of avarice.””
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)